Coming of the Destroyer

Was there one in the vault?

“I think the best use of our resources is uncovering who this Destroyer might be. We have access to a multitude of old texts and rubbings. Perhaps something in the vault that was recovered could help as well?” Kelb rubs his temples for a moment, “I can’t believe this is the first time such a prophecy has been stated.”

After a few moments, he adds, “If the 12 keys of man are required, then we need to redouble our efforts to get at least one of them. If it’s an all-or-nothing entry requirement.”

I believe the Destroyer … who is coming out of hidden lands to the west … Which could be Dhar Zhan Vor … and whose name will stop he heart of an emperor … and has an army … is most likely Calemnon.

I don’t know if it is possible to stop the Destroyer. I would like to defeat him … but more recent prophesies from Tultipet seem to indicate we will need him. Against the dragon. Stopping the Destroyer only to watch the First City burn under the Dragon’s flames goes in my loss column too.

From my researches I know also that Leonydas val’Virdan recovered one of the Twelve Keys. Tradition has it he wore it around his neck. If so presumably it was lost in the Citadel of Silence 40+ years ago. Though it’s not impossible he did something with his key before going in. If the Keys are needed then our best chance of preventing assembly lies there. But if the Singarthans are in league with the Destroyer than they may get to the Citadel of Silence and the key through the Endless Dark. We’d never know they came or went.

Leonydas, a paragon of Nier, and perhaps a potential ember bereft of fire may play a further roll too…if he’s still alive in there.

That’s what I know.

-T

“Well. In exchange for going to the Isle of Tears the Sanctorum did say anything …”

Still if the Sanctorum had the resources to seize one of the Keys its not entirely clear to me that they would have needed our services in the first place.

But it was on the list of things I asked for. Right after the request for an exclusive interview with Nurion.

“I was selfish and asked for something for myself. I would love to hear of what comes of your want list. If there are twelve and we only “know” of the location of one, I wonder what we could do find out about others. Would the knowledge wardens know?”

Its possible we do have one or more tucked away somewhere. Ditto the Azure Way. Ditto the Mourners in Silence. Ditto the Jial of the Phoenix. Those kinds of questions tend not to be answered by the leadership. The Orthodoxy or the Sanctorum could have one too. Temple of Altheres? Knowledge Wardens? Inquisition? Sure. No one knows.

i would swear every other purveyor of trinkets in the First City claims to have a key. When i get tired of their pitches I ask to test their claim with a warhammer. The real keys are indestructible. The fakes not so much.

Kelb, you have an antiquities shop. Any alleged Keys on your shelves?

-Tukufu

I don’t know if it is possible to stop the Destroyer. I would like to defeat him … but more recent prophesies from Tultipet seem to indicate we will need him. Against the dragon. Stopping the Destroyer only to watch the First City burn under the Dragon’s flames goes in my loss column too.

Interesting, my take on what occurred in Tultipet was quite different. It appeared to me that the dragon was attempting to seize the first city in order to access the Throne of Man and destroy it. The dragon was attempting to prevent the rise of the Destroyer by destroying the means of his rise, because prophecy states that if he does rise and sit on the throne, that he will have the power necessary to be a threat to the dragon.

It seemed to me that the dragon was unwise, and by attacking the city and weakening its defenders, he may have already assisted the destroyer himself in taking the city at a later date. To me, it seems that there may be common cause between those who oppose the coming destroyer and the dragon – if the dragon is capable of being convinced of this.

I have heard recently of an older prophecy, given to the former Patriarch Felician val’Mehan, that told of a falcon being torn apart, then a light upon the throne of man, and then a world full of silence. He took the falcon to be the Coryani empire, and was working to reunite it through his talks with Canceri, so that it would be strong enough to face the later threats. I can’t help but wonder if the coming of this destroyer is this later threat, since we now know the Destroyer is linked strongly to the throne of man. It bears clues that I think may need thinking on.